Satan will try to stir up what our faithful Refiner wants to skim off.
Psalm 62 tells us that we can pour out our heart to God. He is a refuge for us. This is a good opportunity to remove from our cup anything that is a false comfort.
Pride lives on the defensive against anyone and anything that tries to subtract from its self-sustained worth. Confidence, on the other hand, is driven by the certainty of God-given identity and the c...
One of our most important defenses against satanic influence will be learning how to behave out of what we know is truth rather than what we feel. Satan's desire is to modify human behavior to accompl...
Oh, the positive power of an instructed tongue! How many weary people do we encounter day after day who could use a sustaining word?
Often when we’re oppressed, instead of cooperating with God and going to a place of freedom, we hide in shelters. Sometimes we just go into isolation. We hide behind our jobs. We hide behind busy thin...
O, Lord, help me to lift my eyes and look to the heavens and acknowledge who created all these. You bring out the starry host one by one, and call each of them by name. Because of Your great power and...
Meanness at church sometimes exceeds anything that occurs in secular surroundings.
May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be pleasing in your sight, O LORD, my Rock and my Redeemer. (Ps. 19:14)
May God remind us daily—no matter what kind of obstacles we face—that we are loved and empowered by the One who brought the universe into existence with the mere sound of His voice. Nothing is impossi...
Lord, please help me to revere Your name. You have promised that, if I do, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings and that I will go out and leap like a calf released from the st...
Life and death are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruit. Proverbs 18:21
Let us lay aside every weight and the sin that so easily ensnares us, and run with endurance the race that lies before us. Hebrews 12:1
If you do not stand firm in your faith, then you will not stand at all. Isaiah 7:9
If we would turn the time we spent discussing the other's life into prayer time instead, no telling what would happen to the glory of God.
I will sacrifice a freewill offering to you; I will praise your name, O Lord, for it is good. (Ps. 54:6)
I want a thousand things for my children, and I ask without hesitation, but I want nothing more than that God would be glorified. Life is just a breath. All that will matter forever in our heavenly st...
God will sometimes allow things to get bad enough that we will be forced to look up. Victory always begins with a cry for help. When we come to the end of ourselves and cry out for help, amazing thing...
God is thoroughly committed to finishing the masterpiece He started in us. And that process means one major thing: change. • • • What
God doesn’t work for us; we work for God.